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Programmers therefore need to understand time.



However, time is shackled to space. Therefore, all programmers need to understand space.


That's interesting, we don't generally consider relativistic effects on computation.

There could be an interesting synthesis between Minkowski spacetime, lambda calculus, and Lamport clocks that will either a) show that the fundamental unifying element in the universe is functions (and really annoy at least one side in the disagreements over the Black Hole Information Paradox), or b) make for a terrific Greg Egan novel.




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